The Artsplosure Student Art Exhibition is a juried visual art competition, allowing students enrolled in Wake County Middle Schools and High Schools to show off their artistic talent while competing for a total of $500 in cash prizes.  In 2008, 109 pieces were selected for display at Artsplosure from over 400 entries, received from the following schools:

 

Apex Middle School

Carnage GT Magnet Middle School

Daniels Middle School

East Millbrook Middle School

East Wake Middle School

Ligon Middle School

Lufkin Road Middle School

Ravenscroft School

West Millbrook Middle School

Apex High School

Athens Drive High School

Cary High School

Garner Magnet High School

Grace Christian High School

Green Hope High School

Knightdale High School

Leesville Road High School

Longview High School

Middle Creek High School

Panther Creek High School

Ravenscroft School

Southeast Raleigh Magnet High School

Wakefield High School

The Triangle Potters Guild is a non-profit organization that seeks to educate the public and to arouse interest at all levels of skill in the practice, standards, ethics and appreciation of the ceramic arts. We provide opportunities for all members and the public to experience the ceramic arts and to increase skills, knowledge and appreciation of the art form. Our membership includes professional production potters, studio art potters, serious amateurs, hobbyists, beginners, ceramics educators, sculptors, collectors, and everything in between. During the Artsplosure weekend Guild members will provide wheel and sculpting demonstrations as well as a kid’s clay table. Members’ display and sell original clay work to support group efforts.

www.trianglepotters.org

During Artsplosure weekend, the Contemporary Art Museum (CAM) invites you to check out their storefront windows exhibit featuring the artwork of middle school student participants from CAM’s Moore Square: Past, Present & Future after school program.  The student participants have met with urban planners, downtown developers, and historians; they have photo documented downtown Raleigh; then created artwork incorporating historic imagery, their own artistic documentation of the present, and their vision for the future.

For more information and a listing of all window exhibit sites check out the windows at Cherry Huffman Architecture (135 E. Martin Street) right on Moore Square!

 

Also visit:

http://cam.ncsu.edu/programs-educational-moore.html

http://camdowntown.blogspot.com/

Self-guided tour
Tickets: $10; Purchase at the Raleigh Urban Design Center
133 Fayetteville Street, Suite 100
(Corner of Hargett and Fayetteville streets)
Free for children under 12.

Please visit www.raleighdowntownliving.com.
For more information contact the Raleigh Urban Design Center at 919-807-8479 or e-mail hometour@ci.raleigh.nc.us.